Wayne Zingsheim, Park Ridge's assistant superintendent of public works, said Tuesday his town has sent a letter informing the Chicago Department of Energy Park Ridge will refuse its grant.He said he thought a Park Ridge station would carry $90,000 or more in hidden costs.

Public Works Director Wayne Zingsheim was designated as the City's liaison with Com Ed to hold the utilities' feet to the fire on its promises - until now, purely hollow ones - to upgrade the City's power grid.
Good luck, Zinger!

According to theAgenda Cover Memorandum of Public Works Director Wayne Zingsheim, the contract between the City and John's cotained "an optional one-year extension" which is being exercised for $45,552.

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Consequently, we have to question whether Zingsheim is exercising the City's "option" so as to end-run the bidding requirement.
And by not attaching the contract to his memo, it looks like Wayne might be trying to hide that end-run from both the Council and the public.

The Park Ridge City Council on March 10 is expected to review preliminary design proposals from Christopher B. Burke Engineering for flood-control measures within the Mayfield Estates subdivision and at Northwest Park, 1200 N. Dee Road, said Public Works Director Wayne Zingsheim.

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Zingsheim told the Park Ridge Herald-Advocate that it is the intention of city staff to discuss the Northwest Park detention option with park district representatives once it is known for certain that the City Council wants to move forward with it.

"This upcoming March meeting will tell us a lot more: whether [aldermen] want to go forward, whether they want to go to referendum and how they want to finance it," Zingsheim said.